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  1. It's who we all are on Ask Slashdot: Why Are We Still Writing Text-Based Code? · · Score: 1

    Text = Languague
    Language is not just how we communicate, it's how we think. If they took your language away could you even think anything but the most simple thoughts?

  2. Syn flood? on Britain's GCHQ Attacked Anonymous Supporters With DDoS · · Score: 1

    This was the first DOS attack I ever heard of. Used against Panix (ISP in NY) back in the day. Now most systems (Linux kerel, etc) are hardened against syn floods.

    Primitive.

  3. File a complant with ICANN on Network Solutions Opts Customer Into $1,850 Security Service · · Score: 2

    ICANN has rules for how accredited registrar must handle such things. They could be fined or have there accrediation pulled.

  4. Go wireless on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Convince an ISP To Bury Cable In Your Neighborhood? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Use WISP technology. And before you say our covenant won't allow antennas....

    http://www.fcc.gov/guides/over-air-reception-devices-rule

  5. Mythbusters on Why Birds Fly In a V Formation · · Score: 1

    Didn't Mythbusters experimentally show that the V formation saves fuel?

  6. Mlet theory on Is Earth Weighed Down By Dark Matter? · · Score: 0

    I read this several years ago.

    Modified Lorentz Ether Gauge Theory

    The mainstream authorities are fond of saying that GPS would not work if it weren’t for Einstein’s relativity. Clifford Will of Washington University has been quoted31 as saying:

            SR has been confirmed by experiment so many times that it borders on crackpot to say there is something wrong with it. Experiments have been done to test SR explicitly. The world’s particle accelerators would not work if SR wasn’t in effect. The global positioning system would not work if special relativity didn’t work the way we thought it did.

    Oh really? What does one of the world’s foremost experts on GPS have to say about relativity theory and the Global Positioning System? Ronald R. Hatch is the Director of Navigation Systems at NavCom Technology and a former president of the Institute of Navigation. As he describes in his article for this issue (p. 25, IE #59), GPS simply contradicts Einstein’s theory of relativity. His Modified Lorentz Ether Gauge Theory (MLET) has been proposed32 as an alternative to Einstein’s relativity. It agrees at first order with relativity but corrects for certain astronomical anomalies not explained by relativity theory. (Also see IE #39, p. 14.)

  7. Wire is good on The Dismantling of POTS: Bold Move Or Grave Error? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Remember that the wire used to deliver POTS service also delivers DSL. No wire, no DSL.

  8. Even if you manged to get 0.1 farad, it would provide 12 volts for only a few milliseconds at 500 amps.

    Your average Lead - Acid car battery will put out 1000 amps into a dead short. Don't try this though, things tend to explode.

    Super capacitors tend to have very high ESR, no good for power filtering.

    Capacitors and inductors are the two things that don't reduce down to chip levels very well. One of the main reasons your cell phone isn't just one chip. Making these on chip is kind of a holly grael. If this were that easy chip makers would have done this long ago.

  9. Devices to read it on Billion Year Storage Media · · Score: 1

    All fine to have a storage medium that lasts a million years. How about the drive to read it?

    My wife did her thesis on the subject of long term data preservation.

    http://explorer.cyberstreet.com/CET4970H-Peterson-Thesis.pdf

  10. Chaos on Same Programs + Different Computers = Different Weather Forecasts · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This very effect was noted in weather simulations back in the 1960's. Read Chaos - The making of a new science, by Jmaes Gleick.

  11. Re:Is this a serious question? on Ask Slashdot: Enterprise Level Network Devices For Home Use? · · Score: 0

    Very serious question. Dude!

  12. Re:Old Cisco Equipment on Ask Slashdot: Enterprise Level Network Devices For Home Use? · · Score: 1

    Cisco 871 here and a C2950-24 switch. The 3550 is great if you want the layer 3 capabilities but remember it's power requirements as are around 80 watts. The 2950 uses only around 18 and isn't as noisy.

    Failures much lass frequent. In fact I buy these for customers on ebay for around $50. Zero failures on the 871 routers and only one on the C2950.

    Remember if it isn't running IOS it isn't real Cisco gear. Never mind the Linksys crap they bought and put there name on. Big mistake that even they now realize as they are dumping Linksys.

  13. Cisco 871 on Ask Slashdot: Enterprise Level Network Devices For Home Use? · · Score: 2

    Cisco 800 series routers do a great job. Used on ebay for as little as $50. I use an 871 but for most an 851 would do just as well. Very stable with some having over a year of up time. For wireless look at 1200 series AP's. Dual band versions like the 1231AG go for as little as $30 on ebay. Tolerate temps as high as 122 deg F so you can even put them in attics.

    I would rather have a used BMW than a new KIA any day. Besides most pure electronics don't wear out the way machanical things do. My old Apple II still works fine, as does my Icom 745 HF rig from the mid 80's.

  14. Books on Ask Slashdot: Permanent Preservation of Human Knowledge? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Books. It worked before, it should work again.

    The electronic preservation angle was my wife's thesis.

    http://explorer.cyberstreet.com/CET4970H-Peterson-Thesis.pdf

  15. Still waiting for 1G on 10GbE: What the Heck Took So Long? · · Score: 1

    Most of my customers are still running 100base-T and see little reason to upgrade since their networks primarily exist to distribute Internet access. What took so long? Nobody seems to really want it. Slashdot crowd not withstanding.

  16. Re:Yeah, Right. I'll Believe It When..http://tech. on Google Fiber: Why Traditional ISPs Are Officially On Notice · · Score: 1

    With this pace of rollout it would take a century to get this here in SW Florida. I am not holding my breath.

  17. Not the whole picture on Apple Devices To Outsell Windows For First Time Ever In 2013 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mobile phones really skewed things. However if you take things like Andriod into account Apple's share is still quite small. It just that Microsoft has almost no presence in the mobile phone market. Bill would not have let this happen had he still been in charge.

  18. Re:Too fast on IEEE Launches 400G Ethernet Standards Process · · Score: 1

    This is what I'm talking about. These links will be buried deep inside infrastructure. Most of us will never see even one. How many of us have even seen a 10G link?

  19. Too fast on IEEE Launches 400G Ethernet Standards Process · · Score: 0

    Even SSD drives couldn't send data fast enough for this. Most of my customers still use 100baseT. Some have upgraded to gigabit. I see very little use for this outside of large data centers,

  20. Why do I need a screwdriver? I have a hammer.

  21. Re:Mint. on Ask Slashdot: New To Linux; Which Distro? · · Score: 1

    I have switched from Ubuntu to Mint.

    Boils down to:

    If you like windows 8 go Ubuntu

    If you hate windows 8 go to Mint

  22. Re:You're supposed to get an AS number. on A 50 Gbps Connection With Multipath TCP · · Score: 1

    On second thought not even then. Each connection has it's own ip address. You would need to find a way to terminate a single TCP connection on two ips. I assume this require change to the server and client end's software/os/

  23. Re:You're supposed to get an AS number. on A 50 Gbps Connection With Multipath TCP · · Score: 1

    Does not work with nat. Unless you could bgp anounce a single ip address.

  24. Popeye on Dad Hacks "Donkey Kong" - Now Pauline Rescues Mario · · Score: 1

    This remindes me of the mod my brother did for a company, Palm City Music many years ago. They wanted to make their own brand of Pac-Man. So they got Mark to reverse engineer the Pac-Man ROMs and modify the characters to look like the the head of Popeye and the energy pills to look like cans on spinach. The Ghosts? They became pirates.

  25. Re:Don't bother with salvaging common parts on Ask Slashdot: Projects For a Heap of Tech Junk? · · Score: 1

    On things like TVs and monitors I go for mostly the power components. Large wattage resistors, High voltage caps. Power transistors. Large diodes.

    These can be expensive to buy. You can get enough from 10 TV to have a nice stock. Use a Paint striping heat gun to remove the parts from the PCB.

    Don't bother with ICs except for standard ones like OP-AMPS, voltage regulators and such. These are mostly ASICs and of little use for anything but reparing now worthless TVs.

    Oh yea and one of the most useful parts, screws. A good sized box of assorted screws is the most handy of all.